A Graphical Survey of Free Carrier Magnetooptical Effects in Semiconductors

  • E. D. Palik
  • B. W. Henvis
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Abstract

Since about 1955, numerous free carriermagnetooptical experiments have been devised to study the band structure of semiconductors. Among these are magnetoplasma reflection, rotation and ellipticity, cyclotron resonance, Faraday effect, Voigt effect and certain “helicon” effects. It is rather interesting that the classical model for bound and free electrons in a magnetic field which was developed by Drude,(1) Lorentz,(2) and Voigt(3) more than sixty years ago has been carried over to semiconductors essentially intact. Indeed, many of today’s free carrier experiments are quantitatively explained on the basis of this early model. It is only necessary to introduce the effective mass (which may be anisotropic), the scattering time of the charged particle (which will vary with the scattering mechanism), and the dielectric constant of the host lattice. There are, of course, fine structure and new effects of an oscillatory nature which are explained only on the basis of quantum mechanics, but these will not be discussed here.

Keywords

Resonant Frequency Free Carrier Cyclotron Resonance Faraday Rotation Dielectric Tensor 
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© Plenum Press, New York 1970

Authors and Affiliations

  • E. D. Palik
    • 1
  • B. W. Henvis
    • 1
  1. 1.Naval Research LaboratoryUSA

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